"Express yourself, don't repress yourself" ~Madonna Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910 Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935) The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. A. L. Kitselman When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -Anon. FRIENDSHIP "The road to a friend's house is never long." -Danish proverb "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." -Muhammad Ali "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." -Pam Brown "Friends are treasures." -Horace Bruns "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha "The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard "The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?" -Eugene Kennedy "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." -Joseph Roux "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." -George Washington "True friends stab you in the front." -Oscar Wilde HUMOR "Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." -Romain Cary "Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders." -Oscar W. Firkins. "Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." -Christopher Morley, Inward Ho "Wit is the lowest form of humor." -Alexander Pope, "Essay on Criticism" "Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." -Agnes Repplier, Points of View IMAGINATION "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." -Anon. "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." -Edmund Burke "Live out of your imagination, not your history." -Stephen Covey "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all." -Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvester Bernard, 1881 "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw. -Robert Francis Kennedy "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." -W. Somerset Maugham "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'" -George Bernard Shaw "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." -Peter Nivio Zarlenga DESTINY "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan "I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves." -George Gordon Byron "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." -Joseph Conrad, Chance "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -Kim Hubbard "And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own." -André Malraux, The Voices of Silence "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." -Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -William Shakespeare "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." -Oscar Wilde, De Profundis INTELLIGENCE "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle "Wit is educated insolence." -Aristotle "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -F. Scott Fitzgerald "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." -Don Herold FORGIVENESS "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." -William Blake, Jerusalem, 1820 "Reason to rule but mercy to forgive: The first is the law, the last prerogative." -John Dryden, "The Hind and the Panther", 1687 "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again." -Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964 "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." -Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927 "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." -Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." -Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism" "What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?" -William Carlos Williams, Pictures from Brueghel, 1962 HAPPINESS "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Anon. SUBMITED QUOTES "A man can not discover new oceans if he doesn't have courage to lose sight of the shore."-Ivon POETRY I have some new ones to post soon ;-) "The Muse that lives" Oh night! Oh night! That your pleasures be my guide Born for darkness not for light Around, around, to smell your sight Oh night! Oh moonless night! I drown in your eyes full of fire While waiting for your bite To burn your body in desire Dreadful night, Bring me death not life Shall I be by your side Or drown forever in a mire? Johann A.A. Machado - September 1996 Know Yourself Hey you, stop and listen It's your life, not just an act playing You see, but look with your own eyes You speak, but whose words are you saying Hey you, hey me Be aware that you are aware And don't fear what you will see Feel deep. Be free. Be you, I'll be me. Hey you, it is not the matter Of is it easy, or is it hard. The only truth you'll ever discover Is the truth within your soul and hearth. So know yourself. Take that path. It's your life that you are finding. Feel, speak, listen, think- With your mind, with your meaning. Crimes of the mind Like the cancer in your system I've got a surprise for you Something inside of me has opened my eyes Why did you put it there, did you not realize? Something inside of me, it screams the loudest sound Sometimes I think I could take it all down 'I love you,' i never throw that around. I woke up today To find myself in the other place With a trail of footprints From where you ran away. it seems that everything i've thought Just might be true And you know me, Well i think you do. A duel of personality The stranger true reality. And in my dreams I'm a different me With a perfect you As it always should be You and I fit perfectly. And for once in my life I feel complete. Wherever I go I take a little piece of you And when I miss you, it's those that get me through. The ocean pulls me close And whispers in my ear The destiny I've chosen All becoming clear The currents have their say The answer is drawing near, Washes me away makes me shed a tear Can i not fulfill you? That is my fear. Why have you gotten so withdrawn? When I am trying to help you hang on That is unless all you want to give is gone. So once again, the way you feel Will never stay the same and I'm to blame I wonder just who made up the rules of this game. Well i just don't understand About the complexitites of your mind And I guess I just don't understand About what you want and need And I guess I just don't understand About how it has to be. You say those 1000 things you think you need to say Look at me and tell me "love" is not such a hard word anyway. If this is the case I descend from grace In the arms of the undertow I will take my place. but in the end i won't pretend That the time we spend Always knowing when I'm with you I'm finally free More than I ever thought I could be. The clouds will part and the sky will crack open And God himself will reach out and give me a token. A token of an angel But with her heart most tangled From a lover from the past But changing your heart was my task. She broke it apart But I will build it back up And you will finally see That with me, you too can be free! As clear as day The plan is already underway Just what of us will become? Together you and I were supposed to overcome I send to God only one prayer To let our love that we share Sustain Remain Always the same. Open your eyes, you will like what you see The devil of doubt will not steal the souls of the free I spent my life learning conformity But finally claimed my own identity open your eyes, you will like what you see because I will give you your desired security. For SN Beneath Beneath the stain of time The feeling disappears You are someone else I am still right here. I was the lover in your bed Love was all i wanted to provide Now i am the hate you try to hide I take you where you want to go I give you all you need to know I drag you down i use you up I am your self destruct I am the bullet in the gun I am the truth from which you run I am the silencing machine I was the begining to all your dreams perfect little dream the kind that hurts the most Forgot how it feels...well almost No one to blame always the same Open my eyes Wake up in flames. Smashed up my sanity Smashed up my integrity Smashed up what I believed in Smashed up my everything Smashed up all that was true Gonna smash myself to pieces I don't know what else to do Watching the whole that used to be mine Just watching it burn in my steady systematic decline Of the trust you will betray Give it to you so you can throw it all away After everything i've done I hate myself for what I've become As black as the night can get Everything is better now There is always a way to forget Once you learn to find a way how. A fool's destination Swallowed up in empty space The tear of regret frozen to the side of my face. All I do I still feel you Numb all through i can still feel you Hear your call Underneath it all Kill my brain Yet you still remain All I've undergone I will keep on You give me the anger You give me the nerve Carry out the sentence you will get what you deserve The time has come to say goodbye And i am slipping on the tears you've made cry. Being alone is what you choose And now my heart is hardened, black and bruised But a puddle of pity I wil not sit for you. Yet I wish you happiness, serenity and new love too. Also for SN Ava Adore I treat her like she's royalty, And give her all my loyalty. I'm her guard--it's my duty. Words can't tell of her beauty. It's her I try to find, When I linger behind. It's her beautiful mind, That helps me unwind. Try to give her a sign. In awe of her design. Like a star she does shine, I really can't define. It's my job to protect, The very one I respect, But I'm scared of reject, With that I'd be wrecked. And I say: "Allow me to reveal, The way I truly feel, My love for you is real. This feeling's surreal." =D Pain No one knows the pain I feel, the hurt within my heart It does not cease, it lingers on tearing me apart. How could it be that a love that once set my heart aglow Could now be the same love to destroy me so? This love I had meant more to me than life could ever be, Yet now it seems this precious love has become my enemy. No matter how I try my spirits to regain I cannot seem to overcome this devastating pain. My hopes and dreams now shattered like a broken window pane As I look to the days ahead with nothing but disdain. I gave my heart and soul with tenderness and loving care Placing all my trust in the one I held so dear. The happiness and the promises of a love that seemed so right Have left me cold and taken flight into the darkened night. I gave my heart and a love that was genuine and true And now I am left alone, wounded, sad and blue. Love of my life Painful Heart If only this pain would cease On life would have a new lease. Don't know how to bear Except walk life's road with a dare. There's nothing I now can do My skies no longer are blue The dove of peace from me has flown Life's path of rocks has shown. I long for a lazy sunny day When then I could say, "Forever gone are my cares, God's love with me now shares." Maybe when this life is over, I will run through the fields of clover, Laughing and having fun As a child playing in the sun. But if for now this pain would end God to me his peace send Forever true to Him would be My loved one then could see. ~~~ Having used every subterfuge To shake you, lies, fatigue, or even that of passion, Now I see no way but a clean break. I add that I am willing to bear the guilt You nod assent. Autumn turns windy, huge, A clear vase of dry leaves vibrating on and on. We sit, watching. When next I speak Love buries itself in me. ~~~~ Well you can be my savior with everything you do or some kind of punisher for loving you. I don't really believe you understand how it's affecting me the sooner you get it, the better it will all be. Lick around the divine debris taste the wealth of hurt in me. Shedding skin succumb defeat this machine is obsolete. ~~~4 KSL UNFAITHFUL She spread herself wide open to let the insects in She leaves a trail of honey to show me where she's been She has the blood of reptile just underneath her skin Seeds from a thousand others drip down from within Oh my beautiful liar, oh my precious whore My disease, my infection, I am so impure Devils speak the ways in which she'll manifest Angels bleed from the tainted touch of my caress Need to contaminate to alleviate this lonliness I know now the depths I reach are limitless ~~Now if I said who this was for I would surely be in trouble. They know. THE RUINER The runier's got a lot to prove She's got nothing to lose Well she's the living end Her deceit is her only friend You are the ruiner You ruin everything you see Now the only pure thing Left in my fuckin' world Is wearing your disease You had to give them all a sign You had to covet what was mine You are the ruiner, a collector You are an infector Maybe there will come a day When those you keep blind Will suddenly realize You are the disease, the infection You make me so impure What you gave to me My perfect ring of scars You know now I can see Just the monster you really are. FORGET IT Just a reflection Just a glimpse Just a little reminder Of all the what abouts And could have beens Another day Some other way But not another reason to continue The hopes and prays For the better days And the far aways Forget it. JAPAN I've been abused I've been used Left alone in the shade From someone that I thought was so unafraid As surely as the blade's course has run The weight on my mind weighs a ton Why should I bother? Why should I worry? To know who I love Already has another My heart breaks At every word's sake Of the new love you've found.... How could anyone I said:"anyone!" be better than this one!?! I gave you everything you need... Everything you need and then some Yet you left me for trash "Maybe our personalities just clashed." FIREBALL IN A WINTER SO COLD THAT IT HURT WHEN I PUT A ROSE ON YOUR TABLE IT TURNED INTO A ROSE OF FIG AND GREW SO ANGRY IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO HOLD IT. SO I LET IT BE, AND IT BURNED THE TABLE EVER SO SILENTLY WHEN I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR, MY CHAPSTICK, MY SHIRT AND EVERYTHING ELSE WAS ON FIRE. SO I RAN AWAY FROM THAT HOUSE WITH ONLY A BROKEN HEART IN MY HAND. FRIENDS BEFORE LOVERS Well show me a friendship that's pure and chaste And I'll show you an engine that is dying to race. Well the time has come for me to find Another way to get back what my soul fed Act naturally, don't let our troubles show Don't let anybody know 'Till we get it figured out Don't give them anything they could doubt You know I tried To show you what I have inside Will we laugh at how this all began When you realized you lost the best woman. All my life I've been looking for my symmetrical mate And when I finally found the one it was almost too late. Take all that I got, multiply by zero Divide by the time I've got left And all I can do, is wish I could drive in the car you drive around the bay I wish I could ride in the back of the car you're riding in today I wish I could be more like someone you wish that I could be No matter how I change it anyway You won't even say if you really want me. December and the trees are restless Windchimes blow in the dark Lying on the couch defenseless With blue clouds court and spark Lonely, lonely girl Here at the end of the lonely world I'm just finding out You're someone to cry about. ~~~ COMPLICATION Do I have the patience to wait till my mud settles and the water is clear? Can I remain among the unmoving till the right action arises by itself? I hurry to the realm of dreamless sleep, free of desires, fear and pain. Free from desire, I realize the mystery. Caught in desire, I see the manifestations Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness, the gateway to understanding. Everyone always says: "how are you?" No one ever says "how aren't you?" Guilty of dust and so much sin. From dust I rise, and out of nothing now awake. I select and reject therefore cannot perceive love's true meaning. Must we lose what we love to know how much we loved it? At the bottom of the silence what lies and waits? Is it Love? Is it Pain? I turn my hands to my sketchbook only for Love or Pain: needing pretext for meaning. Do you want to know what is in my heart? If I devulged, my world would be torn apart! I lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind. The more I think about these matters, the farther I am from the truth. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoings and right, there is a field and I'll meet you there. Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense. Love is so tricky. When you think you have captured it at last, you find out that isn't so. What seems so far from you is most your own. Anxious, I keep looking for a foothold- I at times too young for what is old and too old for what has never been My sweet danger ripening from within I am my own self destruct My tragic flaw I continuously construct. Love I will never understand Nor that of myself The more I try The farther I get from what i have planned. When we understand, we are at the center of the circle And there we sit while Yes and No chase after eachother around the circumference The unnamable is the eternally real You were my unnamable, you were potentially real. What can i do but thank you a hundred times? Your face illuminated the love once in my eyes. ~~This one is for one I shall not name. “This is you girl, something never waning or forgetting Something hard against the soul This is where you make sense, that the sight becomes tender The night air human, the dull silence full chattering, Volcanoes cease, and to be awake with you- Is more lovely than my dreams.” ~~This was a poem I read years ago (I think it was from a book called “The Key”) but it’s posted here for SA :-) From Above Please don’t say I love you. Those words touch me much too deeply. I want to fill your heart with joy, And feel loved, not played like a toy. An emotion is more than a feeling in words, But it is a voice in your heart that wants to be heard. I have had visions, dreams of you there; Dreams that you loved me, thoughts that you cared. Wonders carried through the sky, That tender feeling between you and I One day it will be set free, That day when we are both happy. The moment in our lives that we realize We live, we love and we dream through our eyes. But I am just a teen, living in a dream; Fore-telling those shadows that are never what they seem. When I am in your arms, you hold the key. The power to lift that little girl high and set that voice free. The wisdom to be wise, the power to feel loved, Is a wonderful feeling that has been sent from up above. ~~This was written in high school to my first “love”, but definitely not my last. LIFE Days pass us by And we suddenly stop. We realize our identity Asking all questions to myself And never knowing the answers. Why do I speak when there is no on to listen? The wall becomes my best friend My pillow, my crying shoulder. A crisis, or hopeless tears and shattered dreams Like broken glass of the picture of life. As I stare into empty page, seeing but a life story I flip through them, seeing and hearing Those lines I want to be there, But snapping back into reality again the pages say: “They are empty, they are empty. Through hardships and rough times You are a strong person, but the pages are empty.” Never letting the sensitive side into the world If they saw me cry, My identity would be shattered Which leaves more broken glass from the picture of life. ~~I wrote this in high school too, got published in the paper. Friends are like seashells And life is like a walk on the beach. As you walk, you come across several shells. Some you keep and some you throw away. The ones you keep are the shells that are beautiful to you. Beautiful in appearance and texture and ones meant to be cherished. As I was walking along the beach, With the waves crashing in at high tide I came across a shell Fragile, frail and oh so beautiful. And wouldn’t you know it, That shell was you. ~~This was written in class in high school when my best friend (at the time) and I were fighting. RP. MY FRIENDSHIP The kind of love I feel is unreal Pure, innocent and often surreal To feel at ease and talk at will To have that spot in your heat to fill Fill the spot only a close friend can It’s that smiling face or that helping hand The soul you feel you’ve needed to know The friend to complete and uplift you when you’re low They make you love them in a special was The pleasure of their presence is you hearts only pay And it doesn’t have to be of romance and intimacy But of wholeness and plutonicy I love you the way the stars love the moon And how the horizon begs for the sun to come grace it soon When I look at you, I only see Love, compassion and concern for me A lot of fake people in my time I have seen But it’s because of you, I know what a friend means. ~~This was part of a Christmas gift to my friend- a kiss came soon after that I had no clue was coming. +IC UNRELENTING I beat my machine, it’s a part of me It’s inside of me I’m stuck in this dream and it’s changing me I am becoming the me that had some second thoughts I won’t give up because it wants me dead Goddamn this noise inside my head ~SN Life-Sentence Be what you cannot be Do what you cannot do Then, when you fall and fail We will all laugh at you Hide, we don’t want to see Your tears, or face your need Daring to ask for more Shows your disgusting greed Never admit desire Call hurt some other name To be unsatisfied Is your most secret shame Love? Aren’t we good enough for you? What more could you require? We are the very best Silence your sick desire! Be what we could not be Do what no man could do For we will not feel safe Till we have broken you We are the broken children Who hurt too much to cry And when there’s insufficient We are the one’s that die Wide-eyed with too-long suffering Suffering without a name We watch and ask no questions Silenced by too much shame We dare not touch the future We cannot face the past We are so very tiny Our horror is so vast Hold us through night and morning Till our eyes learn to leak Hold us in timeless silence Till our tongues learn to speak Hold us until forever Until the darkness dies Until a new assurance Dawns in our empty eyes My brazen insecurities Stick out like a thorn in my paw The mighty lioness Broken down “That love thing is not for me” A once armored adage No longer of importance For I have been moved Like fault lines that cannot sit still A part of me has awakened By a kiss so sweet Almost divine if only I… If only I could make you see There is so much MORE inside of me! I want you to feel My emotion erupt and quake Henceforth my insecurities Will fold and break The mighty lioness Torn to the flesh Exposed, vulnerable and weak Its most natural state They all dare not speak The fear of what is next The fear of being left Carnage, minced and horrid Was my heart But faith pulled out the thorn Trust allows us to go on Rise to your might Succeed in any plight For you are with me As I am with you You have pulled the thorn From my tortured heart YOU CAN ALWAYS SUBMIT YOUR OWN QUOTELAND YING YANG HEMP|MUSIC| FUNNY SHIT|QUOTES & POETRY| PEEVES-BITCH HERE 4 FREE| BLUE'S FAVE LINKS| GREAT THOUGHTS BI BLUE| HOTTIE OF THE WEEK| 
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